You cannot disable the "No end date" option for appointments, meeting requests, tasks, or task requests in Outlook 2007

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Applies to: Microsoft Office Outlook 2007

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Problem description

You create a new recurring appointment, meeting request, task, or task request in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. When you set the range of recurrence, the No end date option is always available. You cannot disable the No end date option for appointments, meeting requests, tasks, or task requests.

Note To set the range of recurrence, click Recurrence in the Options group for the appointment, meeting request, task, or task request.

Steps to resolve this problem

To fix this problem, follow these steps:

Apply the hotfix.

How to obtain the hotfix

This issue is fixed in the Outlook 2007 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package that is dated September 24, 2008. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Let me fix it myself

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